walk us through kind of th change that you have seen here and which the last china for decades or so, former presiden has used his legal system an now the some accountability? well there is a myth that h has of aided intense prosecutions or a courtroo drama for decades but th reality is prior to this, he had only been subjected to a serious criminal investigation once, for housin discrimination and his family properties along with th father in the early 1970s. since then, it is never been targeted by federal prosecutor or robust state prosecutors th way he is now. so that is, new secondarily, when i say he weaponizes the legal system, he has used that the silence people without any intent from actually going t court or seeing most of thes legal actions through. and he learned that from roy cohn, he did it forever, he di
went to jail, let s take the off the watchlist and trea them like tiny community banks out somewhere nowhere wher they can hurt the economy. nobody can explain why they re saying that banks that are u to a quarter of a trillion dollars should be regulated as if their community banks that was elizabeth warren i 2018 and that is, in fact, exactl what passed in 2018. that is what donald trump side 2018 elizabeth warren, when she predicted what that would do what kind of risk that create, that was one hunted percen right. this silicon valley bank, this is one of the banks whose ce lobby that a bank like his should not be subjected to the new regulations, that his bank was no risk to anyone. and because of that change signed by president trump in 2018, in fact, silicon valle bank did not have to b subjected to the extra stres
about one issue or one candidate, but about makin long term ideological change and so, we thought, hey, w have this opportunity, we have this vehicle, let s identify a couple the structural gaps w see now, and let us help the democratic party in th progressive left fill some close gaps and we are doing that. and we have had the same leadership team now for si years. i get to come on shows and tal about our great work but the reality is we have a team led by our executiv director, daniel butterfield who, they are gonna continue doing this work. how do we close the digita divide between the left in the right? how do we counter algorithms that reward hatred and right-wing ideology? how do we make sure we re no fighting just against vote suppression through litigation but voter suppression to misinformation all those things are going t continue but i also think organizations benefit from change. they benefit from ne leadership and fresh thinking. and i think it s also importan
after we had that firs inauguration of march 1930 three of fdr, after that, actue united states constitution i order to make that change. and they call that amendment t the constitution, the 20th amendment, they call it th flame duck amendment because by moving th integration from march back to january, we were shortening th lame duck period we were trying to eliminate long lame duck period afte which the old present had been voted out, but before that i would start on the job i mean, the idea was sort of obvious, right it was to try to minimize th risk of crisis, minimize the risk of confusion in terms o who is running the country i case something hickey happened and that interregnum perio between the election and the start of the new president s term so, the last time we had one goes long four month